Abstract
In Nigeria, the growing rate of low enrollment and poor academic achievement of secondary school students in physics has become a source of concern to stakeholders in education. The study assessed home education environment and motivation as correlates of students’ academic achievement in physics using correlational survey research design. A sample size of 333 SS2 physics students participated in the study. Home Education Environment and Motivation Questionnaire (HEEMQ) and Students’ Physics Academic Achievement Spreadsheet (SPAAS) were used for data collection. Results reveal that 40% and 33% of the variation in students’ academic achievement in physics is attributed to home education environment and motivation respectively. Home education environment and motivation significantly predicted students’ academic achievement in physics. However, parents should create a favourable and conducive homeenvironment that can motivate their children to develop positive attitude towards learning physics and as well enhance their academic achievement in the subject. Keywords: Home education environment, Motivation, Academic achievement, Physics, Correlate, Students DOI: 10.7176/JEP/12-23-06 Publication date: August 31 st 2021
Highlights
Physics is one of the core science subjects taught at the senior secondary school level in Nigeria
Choudhary, and Sahdev (2013) reveal that there is a consistent relationship between home environment and students’ academic achievement
The result showed that 40% of students’ academic achievement in physics is predicted by home education environment
Summary
According to Usman, Simyyap, and Fasanya (2019), many developed nations like the USA, Japan, France, China, and Russia attained their positions of world power as a result of their development in science and technology and physics played a key role in that direction. In agreement with this declaration, Okoroh (2003) posits that unless one understands the foundation of physics and links it with applied knowledge, one cannot call oneself an educated person in a country like Russia
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